25May/04Off
Flowers….Bah!
Commuting on London Underground every day is soul-destroying enough, but this week, a whole new set of obstacles and annoyances have descended to plague those of us who commute through Chelsea.
Yes, it's the Flower Show. Which means that for the rest of the week, as it was this evening, my journey home will be blighted by sharing platforms and trains with hordes of braying nobs, tossers with folding chairs, and dodderers in pac-a-macs.
As you can probably tell, I'm thrilled beyond words by this development.
May 26th, 2004 - 09:54
it could be worse you could have to cycle down the kings road / sloane st while the various “nobs, tossers with folding chairs, and dodderers in pac-a-macs” try and flag a taxi by leaping out from the pavement as soon as they see one no matter how far away it is and if the light is on or not…
although amusingly last night i did see 2 women start to argue over the flagging of a taxi when one basically walked slightly further up the road and flagged the first taxi to come along and then looked at the other woman and said, “oh sorry i didn’t realise you were waiting for a taxi”….
May 26th, 2004 - 10:45
I saw something similar last night, highly entertaining watching a clearly clueless person trying to get a taxi and failing for utterly ages. Of course, I was waiting for a bus, so I couldn’t really be too smug
May 29th, 2004 - 23:57
I guess that I would have been one of the nobs. It is nice to be classified
May 30th, 2004 - 07:30
But you weren’t actually were you????
May 30th, 2004 - 12:08
Good point – certainly more decorous than braying.
I was slightly amused by some of the haughty nothings swanning about the place in their finery; suggest you never get in the way of a high-end house madame while she tries to take a picture. If looks could kill… [shudder].